Schedule a priority-led Hacker News morning scan
Start with a brief look at today's conversations that matter to your current work.
Trigger
Recurring schedule
Notis starts this workflow on a schedule, such as daily, weekly, or during business hours.
Action
Get Hackernews Today Posts
Get today's posts from hacker news.
Why this helps
Remembering to check a changing tech feed adds another daily decision to an already full founder routine.
- Automate a bounded daily check-in.
- Use your chosen interests to focus the recap.
- Make it easier to begin the day with relevant context.
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect Hackernews to Notis once through the portal.
- 2Create a scheduled automation in the portal or ask Notis conversationally to set up a morning scan.
- 3Write one plain-language instruction to fetch today's Hacker News posts and summarize only the few items matching your current priorities.
- 4Choose a recurring schedule and where Notis should report each run.
- 5Test once and adjust the topics or summary length to fit your morning.
Questions about this workflow
Does it fetch posts for the current day?
Yes. The workflow uses the action for Hacker News posts from today.
Can I change the scan topics as priorities change?
Edit the plain-language instruction when your focus shifts, so future summaries reflect current priorities.
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Supported Triggers and Actions
Notis builds workflows that link Slack to Hackernews. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.
Slack triggers
Hackernews actions
Recurring trigger
Notis starts this workflow on a schedule, such as daily, weekly, or during business hours.
Get Hackernews Frontpage
Get the frontpage posts of hacker news.
Webhook trigger
Notis starts this workflow when an external tool or custom backend sends an HTTP request.
Get Hackernews Item
Get a specific item from hacker news using its id. limits response size to prevent context overflow.
New Channel Created Trigger
Triggered when a new channel is created in Slack.
Get Latest Hackernews Posts
Get the latest posts from hacker news based on optional filters. results can be limited using the size parameter.
Channel Message Received
Triggered when a message is posted in a Slack channel (public, private, or multi-party IM). Does NOT match direct messages.
Get Hackernews Today Posts
Get today's posts from hacker news.
Direct Message Received
Triggered when a new direct message (DM) is sent to a user in Slack. Catches all DMs across all DM channels.
Get Hackernews User
Get a specific user from hacker news using their username.
Message Reaction Added
Triggered when a reaction is added to a message in Slack. Supports optional filtering by channel and emoji name.
Search Hackernews Posts
Get relevant posts from hacker news based on a full-text query and optional filters. results can be limited using the size parameter.
Message Reaction Removed
Triggered when a reaction is removed from a message in Slack. Supports optional filtering by channel and emoji name.
Reaction Added Trigger
DEPRECATED: use `SLACK_MESSAGE_REACTION_ADDED` instead. Triggered when a reaction is added to a message in Slack.
Connect any two apps with Notis in the middle.
Slack and Hackernews, or any other combination from 1,000+ integrations.
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